{"id":24370,"date":"2025-01-09T06:59:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T06:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=24370"},"modified":"2025-01-09T06:59:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T06:59:34","slug":"jayson-tatum-fires-back-at-brandon-jennings-soft-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=24370","title":{"rendered":"Jayson Tatum fires back at Brandon Jennings\u2019 \u2019soft\u2019 comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p class=\"dek prose mb-2.5 italic text-secondary\">The Celtics\u2019 star was responding to controversial comments about him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-row flex-wrap items-center text-primary\">\n<div class=\"author-link mr-2.5 flex items-center text-sm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1184.jpeg?w=1200\" alt=\"Boston Celtics player Jayson Tatum with the Celtics arena in the background, Brandon Jennings\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s no question that Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum is one of the top NBA players in the league right now. Coming off his first championship and helping lead his team as one of the top contenders this season, his legacy is still being written. But with such success also comes the detractors. One of Jayson Tatum\u2019s recent critics was former NBA player Brandon Jennings.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Jennings recently made controversial comments about Jayson Tatum while appearing on an episode of Gilbert Arenas\u2019 podcast, \u2018Gil\u2019s Arena.\u2019 During that episode, Jennings posed a question as to whether or not Tatum is the softest star in Celtics history. He also questioned why Jaylen Brown won Finals MVP last season and not Tatum.<\/p>\n<p>Well, if a response is what Jennings was looking for, then that\u2019s what he got. Tatum took to social media to fire back at Jennings\u2019 comments. Tatum posted a montage of pictures and videos with the sarcastic caption of, \u2018SoFtesT SuPeRstar in CeLtiC HiStoRy.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Tatum\u2019s response actually garnered a comment from Jennings himself who posted, \u2018This the energy I want!!!!\u2019 in the comments section.<\/p>\n<p>Judging by Jennings\u2019 response to Tatum, it appears as if this might have been a ploy to elicit a response from Tatum and somehow get him to unlock another level on his road to superstardom. It\u2019s just head-scratching to call Tatum soft when he\u2019s proven he\u2019s anything but.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Tatum has been averaging 28.1 points, 9.2 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 1.3 steals with splits of 46.3 percent shooting from the field, 36.2 percent shooting from the three-point line and 80.3 percent shooting from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>Albeit the Celtics\u2019 most recent, humbling loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, they are still 27-10 and in second place in the Eastern Conference standings. They are one of the title favorites and the defending champions until proven otherwise.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celtics star Jayson Tatum had a response on social media this week regarding comments made by former NBA player Brandon Jennings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1450,139],"class_list":["post-24370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-brandon-jennings","tag-jayson-tatum"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jayson Tatum fires back at Brandon Jennings\u2019 \u2019soft\u2019 comments - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=24370\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jayson Tatum fires back at Brandon Jennings\u2019 \u2019soft\u2019 comments - 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